Facets

1598

#12829

Discursos del amparo de los legitimos pobres y reduccion de los fingidos, y de la fundacion y principio de los albergues destos Reynos, y amparo de la milicia dellos.

In this rather utopian work with emblematic illustrations Pérez presented a plan for a state funded public health system and poor relief program. His ten essays concerned hospital sanitation, kitchen gardens, care of …

1742

#13321

Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del piadoso coripheo patriarcha y padre de pobres S. Iuan Ð Dios en su provincia de S. Raphael de las Islas Philipinas: Compendio substancial de su fundacion progressos y estado presente que en sucinto informatibo estilo...

Maldonado de Puga, a member of the Order of San Juan Hospitalier founded in 1572, reported on the introduction and practice of Western medicine in the Philippines, the foundation of hospitals and the relationship betw…

1750

#5374

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers.

Pringle was a strong advocate of better ventilation in prisons and hospitals as a means of preventing typhus, which he showed to be identical with “hospital fever”.

1788

#3426

Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.

First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published. Beard…

1808

#10067

The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,

The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1847

#10063

Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.

The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…

1848

#10056

Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Adopted May 1847.

Heavily influenced by Percival's work, the AMA's code of ethics was written by Isaac Hayes. The first leaf of this 30-page pamphlet indicates that it was "Printed for Private Distribution by the Philadelphia Delegatio…

1855

#10103

History of the American Medical Association, from its organization up to January, 1855. To which is appended biographical notices, with portraits of the presidents of the association, and of the author

The first history of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, written by one of its chief founders. Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1861 –2005

#6715

The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.

“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this series of obituaries…

1863

#11318

Catalogue of the New-York Museum of Anatomy No. 618 Broadway, New-York. Principals: Drs. Jordan & Beck No. 40 Bond Street. Open daily, for gentlemn only, from 10 A.M. till 10 P. M. Admission, 25 cents.

30-page catalogue of a commercial medical museum "for gentlemen only" and clearly operated as an advertisement for Jordan and Beck's medical practice. A great deal of the displayed material was intended to be titillat…

c. 1865

#11316

Hand-book & descriptive catalogue of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Natural Science, now open at the Eureka Theatre, Montgomery St., between California and Pine, San Francisco.

A commercial medical and "natural science" museum operated by Jordan. This may have been the earliest commercial medical museum in California. Pages 50 onward describe what Jordan called the "Pathological Room, For re…

1881

#10334

History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1883

#8133

Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1890

#1627

Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time” (Kelly & Burr…

1891 –1893

#1628

Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.

This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…

1892

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…

1903

#11020

The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1905

#8689

History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908

#9307

The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.

"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…

1913

#7436

Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.

One of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals. Hornaday revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings, and is credited with discovering the American crocodile, savi…

1914

#1664.1

A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.

Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems so obvious to…

1916

#6537.1

A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.

First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#11008

A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1927

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1930

#6730

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…

1930

#10301

Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.

1939

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1939

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1957

#10322

A Medical chronicle of New York State: Being a compendium of historic developments and events during the past 150 years, published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

1959

#6548.1

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.

1961

#1671.4

The story of England’s hospitals.

1963

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

1964 –2005

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.

1964

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

1967

#1671.62

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.

1970

#8605

New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.

Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."

1971

#8327

Health maintenance strategy.

Elwood is often referred to as the "father of the health maintenance organization. He not only coined the term, he also played a role in bringing about structural changes to the American health care system to simultan…

1976

#6551

History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

1978

#8162

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).

1978

#9831

Multiphasic health testing services.

'In 1968 Morris F. Collen, MD and his team at KP’s Medical Methods Research (MMR) built a medical information system that peers described in the era as the most advanced of its kind. It was an aspiration of medical in…

1978

#10980

The Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976): A record of achievement in clinical science.

"[William] Osler also made a very significant contribution to the realization of Flexner’s task by helping to create the Interurban Clinical Club in 1905 [8]. The purpose of this organization was the exchanging of ide…

1979

#6667

TRANSACTIONS AND STUDIES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. MEDICINE AND HISTORY. Series V, 1-

1981

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1984

#10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

1986

#6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..

1986

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

1986

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…

1993

#8179

A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.

1993

#9791

Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. Edited by Arthur W. Hafner. 2 vols.